Skip to content 
Goal Based Intervention
Youthful Minds offer individual goal based interventions that are designed in person centred way to support the individual to achieve short term and long term goals.
What is GBI?
GBI stands for Goal Based Interventions. The approach can help with anxiety, low mood and depression. GBI is based on CBT and DBT therapy which are evidence based therapeutic approaches widely used in treating various mental health conditions. GBI can help children, young people and adults to build resilience, develop healthy coping mechanisms and improve emotional wellbeing.
How is GBI useful?
Goal based interventions can help with following difficulties:
- GBI can also help in achieving your goals.
- Reducing stress as a form of self-care or ‘me-time’ – you might not have a major issue
to work through, you might just want a space for yourself and an opportunity to offload.
Conditions GBI my help:
- Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and panic attacks.
- Depression and low mood.
- Self harming behaviours.
- Emotional dysregulation.
- Bereavement, grief and loss including disaster.
- Relationship difficulties and peer/ friendship problems.
- Sexuality and gender issues.
- Family difficulties.
- Low self-esteem, low self-confidence.
- Trauma, abuse and bullying.
- Addiction.
- School related problems and behavioural issues.
